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Derek Ross
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The purple pill helps the orange pill go down. Developer Relations at Soapbox. 🪺 NostrNests.com 🎙️ YakBak.app 🖼️ Zappix.app 🗓️ Plektos.app 🎶 ZapTrax.app 📈 Zaplytics.app 🎧 Podstr.org
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Derek Ross 3 months ago
are you building games on nostr? join the #gamestr ecosystem! you can use #gamestr to build decentralized leaderboards into your game and reach all users across nostr. you can build games with #shakespeare too. i've seen several built over the last few weeks ;) just tell shakespeare to build a game with this code, copying and pasting it into your app and you're set.
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Derek Ross 3 months ago
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙🏻💜 One thing many new builders, especially vibe coders, often don’t realize at first is how important quality assurance and debugging are. Thoroughly testing every feature of a new app takes a significant amount of time and effort. If you're not doing this, then it's possible that you're contributing to "AI Slop". Don't do that.
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Derek Ross 3 months ago
Sometimes the Nostr ecosystem moves incredibly fast. Other times, it moves more slowly. What matters most is that it’s always moving, always progressing forward, never backward.
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Derek Ross 3 months ago
One of the biggest barriers to adoption and long-term retention on Nostr, in my opinion, is key management. Public/private key pairs are powerful, but they’re also unfamiliar and intimidating to most people. It’s simply not how the majority of users are used to signing in or thinking about accounts. That’s why the diVine Keycast login system is so well done. It introduces a key management layer that feels familiar, usernames and passwords, while still operating within the Nostr ecosystem. For most people, this dramatically lowers the learning curve and removes friction at the moment it matters most: getting started. True sovereign users may never choose this approach, and that’s fine. But millions of everyday users will. And that’s okay too. If we want Nostr to grow beyond early adopters, we need paths that meet people where they are, without forcing everyone to become a cryptography expert on day one. In short, I'm a fan and I hope that other applications adopt similar technologies in the future. As long as we have various user options and give users the choice to be sovereign, I still believe that we're on the correct path forward.